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News!

The next volume in the Astreiant Series, FairsPoint (Astreiant #4) by Melissa Scott, is here!
And Melissa Scott talks about how she and Lisa A. Barnett were inspired to come up with the idea of dog racing as a sport in Astreiant here.

Speaking of the Astreiant Series, we have a great deal running on Google Play this weekend . Bundle any 2 of the first 3 books and get 25% off!

11/29 (today) is also the last day to get 60% off the audiobook for Catherine Lundoff’s Silver Moon! Don’t sleep on this one!

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Happy Pride Month!

We have SO much going on this month!

Check out the Pride StoryBundle, curated by Melissa Scott and Catherine Lundoff, for 13 terrific queer specfic titles, including LITTLE NOTHING by Dee Holloway and A DEATH AT THE DIONYSUS CLUB by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold! Get it at the $25 level and help support Rainbow Railroad’s essential work with LGBTQ refugees. Runs through 7/1/24.

Log on to The Story Hour on 6/5 at 7PM PST to hear Dee Holloway read from her latest!

Look for Catherine Lundoff on programming at 4th Street Fantasy 6/14-6/16.

join us at the Midwest Book Awards on 6/22 to see if DEATH BY SILVER wins in the SF & F category! Then join the Temporal Textual Virtual Book Club on 6/23 to talk about the book!

On 6/27, we’ll be releasing POINT OF HOPES (Astreiant #1) by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett!

Finally, look for us at Twin Cities Pride on 6/28-6/29! We’ll be in the Pink Zone in the Queer Writes section, next to the bridge to the Sculpture Garden from Loring Park in Minneapolis.

Happy Pride!

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March Events and a new title!

It’s here! Check out Terror at Tierra de Cobre by Michael Merriam!

And if you’re in Minnesota this weekend, come see Michael and Catherine at MarsCon Minneapolis. If you’re closer to Ohio, go see Melissa Scott at Cleveland Concoction.

  • MarsCon – March 8-10, Minneapolis, MN. Author Michael Merriam is a Guest of Honor as no we’ll both be on programming  and we’ll be there with a book table and his latest books and more!
  • Cleveland Concoction – March 8-10, Ohio. Author Melissa Scott is a Guest of Honor!
  • Minicon – March 29-31, Minneapolis, MN. Catherine Lundoff and Michael Merriam will be there and on programming.
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New book and cool 2024 lineup announcement!

A Death at the Dionysus Club (Lynes & Mathey 2) by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold is out today! Terrific sequel to Death by Silver!

And in 2024, we’re going to be publishing more fun titles, including:

  • Terror at Tierra de Cobre by Michael Merriam (Weird West novella – a re-imaging of the Magnificent 7 with an all women cast and a demon!)
  • New editions of the Astreiant Series by Melissa Scott and Lisa Barnett (2 volumes), plus a new novella! Look for these in June!
    • Point of Hopes (Scott and Barnett – novel)
    • Point of Knives (Scott – novella)
    • Point of Dreams (Scott and Barnett – novel)
    • Fairs’ Point (Scott – novel)
    • Point of Sighs (Scott – novel)
    • Point of Hearts (Scott)

 

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Award Eligibility and Holiday Sales

First up, Little Nothing by Dee Holloway is eligible for all  2023 awards that include novella length work! BSFA, World Fantasy, Nebulas, Hugos, anything we may have forgotten. It is already nominated for a Lambda Literary Award.

SALES!

Great deals this weekend on most of our titles at DriveThruFiction for the annual Black Friday- Cyber Monday sale.

We’ve also got a sale on Amazon for the IHeartSapphFic Megasale – titles include Silver Moon and Blood Moon by Catherine Lundoff, Last Car to Annwn Station by Michael Merriam, The Language of Roses by Heather Rose Jones and Little Nothing by Dee Holloway.

The audiobook edition of Catherine Lundoff’s SIlver Moon is on sale at Audiobooks.com for the next couple of weeks.

And Bookshop.org has free shipping today!

Next month, the Smashwords sale kicks off on 12/16, so stay tuned for that too!

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September events and cover reveal!

September:

And, of course, Inkspiral Design’s terrific new cover for A Death at the Dionysus Club (Lynes & Mathey #2) by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold, which will be out on 12/7/23! Stay tuned for preorders:

 

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February News

 

February Events
We have two great events coming up this month, one online and one in person:

  1. In Flagrante Delicto: Writing Effective Sex Scenes – Rambo Academy, online. Sunday, February 12th, 1:00-3:00 p.m. Catherine Lundoff will be teaching this class just in time for Valentine’s Day!
  2. Writing OUT: LGBTQ+ Writers and Publishers on the Importance of Representation and Presence in Media – Saturday, February 25th, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library, Eau Claire, WI. Catherine will be a panelist alongside J.M. Lee and Kat Weaver, with moderator Charles Payseur.

Other Queen of Swords Press News

  1. Acclaimed author Judith Tarr gave a lovely shoutout to Catherine Lundoff’s Wolves of Wolf’s Point series at Tor.com.
  2. We’re expanding! Weightless Books, the ebook distribution platform associated with Small Beer Press, is going to be selling our books soon.
  3. Heather Rose Jone’s terrific novella, The Language of Roses, is on the Longlist for the British Science Fiction Association Awards (short fiction category – members of BSFA can vote for it) and is a World Fantasy Awards nominee. Congratulations, Heather!
  4. We have news about audiobooks coming next month, so stay tuned!
  5. We are hoping to have preorders for Death by Silver by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold available next month.